Knockout is an NBC game show that aired from October 3, 1977 to April 21, 1978. A Ralph Edwards production, it was hosted by Arte Johnson, with announcing duties handled first by Jay Stewart and later by John Harlan.
A British version of the show, called Odd One Out, aired from 1982-1985.
The object of the game was to find one thing from a list of four items that was not related to the other three. For example:
The players would be shown a questi...
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Knockout is an NBC game show that aired from October 3, 1977 to April 21, 1978. A Ralph Edwards production, it was hosted by Arte Johnson, with announcing duties handled first by Jay Stewart and later by John Harlan.
A British version of the show, called Odd One Out, aired from 1982-1985.
The object of the game was to find one thing from a list of four items that was not related to the other three. For example:
The players would be shown a question with the possible answers (like shown above) and the first player to buzz-in would try to figure out what did not belong (the answer for the example would be "Miami Dolphins"). A correct answer earned a player a letter in the word "KNOCKOUT" which was displayed on his or her podium.
In addition to the letter, the player with the correct answer had a chance to earn more letters by figuring out the common category of the remaining three words (which in this case would be baseball teams) or by daring one of his or her opponents to answer. If...
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